tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14343927501418242222024-03-19T04:32:36.405-06:00FloatfisherFloatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.comBlogger1918125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-10452269587962694362019-09-30T08:42:00.001-06:002019-09-30T08:42:08.326-06:00Friend of Floatfisher<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Gained a new friend while fishing. A little big and doesn't not fit in the boat very well, but very</span></div>
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Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-73976209780248612132019-08-26T21:00:00.000-06:002019-08-26T21:00:18.833-06:00Too Busy Fishing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I guess I had better get busy and get a couple of posts in, i have been too busy fishing this summer, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">which is a good thing. Hopefully you have all been out too. With all the ample water around, there have been too many choices, so Mary and I have been very busy fishing a variety of water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Sandwiched in between was a little work trip and goof off trip to Alaska, to fish for rainbows, sockeyes and silvers. It is always a great time, especially when you your are treated to a trip on private jet. It makes the trip that much more enjoyable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Now packing for our next trip back up to Alaska in September to find some large rainbows, char, dollies and silver, certainly can't wait.</span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-14565041390500934782019-07-23T20:22:00.001-06:002019-07-23T20:22:25.524-06:00Been Awhile<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">bug hatches, eager and willing fish. Know how to row before putting your boat </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">on the water, as <span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">there are still many obstacles out there, and high water in many area's.</span></span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-8614369278267373282019-07-02T15:09:00.002-06:002019-07-02T15:09:34.706-06:00Trout Season - The Misfit Saviors <div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/343011295">Trout Season - The Misfit Saviors</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/sageflyfish">Sage Fly Fish</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><i>Check out this great film on our good friend Bryan Gregson, they could not have done a feature </i></span></div>
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Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-69526503277451317292019-06-23T18:37:00.003-06:002019-06-23T18:37:55.758-06:00View from the Casting Platform<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">The beautiful view this morning while standing on the casting deck of the drift boat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">while scanning for tailing carp. The morning cloud cover and fog layer made for difficult conditions,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">but will never complain about a morning on the lake with views like this. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">now that the daytime and night time temperatures have finally started to warm-up. I know in our neck of the woods, the rivers have picked up substantial CFS just in 3 days. Let the flushing begin.</span></div>
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Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-37979333647899871012019-05-13T15:55:00.001-06:002019-05-13T15:55:19.676-06:00Carpe Diem<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">The passion, the insanity by some to pursue this crazy fish. The urban jungle is alive and well even in downtown LA. Worth a watch, as it has won many nice awards.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Check it out.</span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-42271018971209126512019-04-28T16:43:00.000-06:002019-04-28T16:43:28.140-06:00Warm Weekend has them Rising<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Our nice warm, windy weekend got things rolling on some of the Colorado waterways, hopefully the </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">cooler weather coming in at the start of the week will slow the roll to allow a week a couple more weeks of fishing, before we have to all resort to the lake for the next few months.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Arkansas River- Today at 736 CFS, but dropping <span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">bit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">It will be nice that our watersheds will all have water this year, and get a good flushing of all the silt and debris to clean them up. Stay safe out there around them.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Hard to stay up with things now that it is work and fishing season again. Guess my priority to the </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">intranet is waning a bit and I need to get better. A quick trip to visit our beloved Missouri River over the Easter holiday did not leave us disappointed, but did remind us that winter never leaves Montana till mid to late May. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Low elevation snow pack, was adding additional water to most of rivers in western Montana currently, and the Missouri was not spared, normally, it would run 4000 to 6000 cfs , for our trip it would be pushing 11k, but that would be alright, as the Missouri can handle it and there are plenty of fish to spread out. You just have to know where to go find them in this higher water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">It did take throwing a little bit of all the arsenal at them at times, but well worth the trip.</span></div>
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Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-5709126957181614242019-04-07T17:13:00.001-06:002019-04-07T17:13:11.080-06:00Sparkle Sunday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Mornings always start out great when you star tossing the old Sparkle Minnow. The SM is a solid</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Producer on most trout rivers, just got to have tie it on at the on-set. Lot of eats and chases in low light this morning. Get out and toss a few. </span></span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-85179650659195064192019-04-06T20:03:00.001-06:002019-04-06T20:03:50.613-06:00Bows and Browns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">In the morning. Some rising fish , but very sporadic. Still a wonderful day to be on the ditch.</span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-73481474863779246382019-04-03T20:37:00.000-06:002019-04-03T20:37:49.446-06:00Almost there Baetis<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Bucky McCormick from Blue Ribbon Flies ties a very nice and very simplistic blue wing olive</span></div>
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Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-50735787708580412012019-03-30T18:54:00.000-06:002019-03-30T18:54:01.142-06:00Ushering Out March<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The end of March brought cold wind but cloudy blue sky’s, the fish </div>
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Although not fast and furious, always a nice day on the ditch with Mary.</div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-47498817966359946302019-03-27T21:44:00.002-06:002019-03-27T21:44:51.796-06:00Ready for Spring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Ready to get the sled out of the garage for a little big river and stillwater fishing, both the types of water are opening up now and spring fishing is starting to heat up. So ready to replace the front brace and seat with the casting platform, New toy....</span></div>
<br />Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-6978682418516564982019-03-20T14:48:00.000-06:002019-03-20T14:48:41.757-06:00Dreaming of Warm and Skinny Water<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Although today is a relatively nice day in comparison, I always dream of chasing fish in skinny water.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">There</span> is something about watching your fish feed face down in meer inches of water that get your heart pumping. At times the excitement comes when fishing these narrow channels, often smaller than most trout streams and rivers getting the brute red bulls to tear off and create a mess.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Boo Yeah.....</span></div>
<br />Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-36733178507891501602019-03-16T16:46:00.003-06:002019-03-16T16:46:56.540-06:00Safety First <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">With the "bomb cyclone" interrupting this weeks activities and this weekends fishing. We had on shopping activity that need attention, new PFD's, throw ropes for the drift boat and new first aid kits for both boats. Safety always has to be first when out on the water. This will be a big year of high water in most all states, you not only need to be prepared for yourself, but many times others around you are not.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Be safe out there this year.</span></div>
<br />Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-53775541199008492092019-03-09T21:24:00.001-07:002019-03-09T21:24:47.152-07:00Float Season is Here<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looking forward to a wonderful summer of fishing..</div>
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Yippee</div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-52824873295027188462019-03-01T07:56:00.000-07:002019-03-01T07:56:36.796-07:00Friday Fly Tying with Greg<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Time to get the last few flies in the box before the season gets started in earnest. Although</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">winter is still around, water is looking really good, and the reports are good from all around.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Time to get the boat and gear ready.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">In today's Friday fly tying theater, Greg ties up a Greg Blessing pattern. The Purple Haze </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">row of them in my box. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Check them out, twist a few up.</span></span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-53353483824534536522019-02-06T17:08:00.000-07:002019-02-06T17:08:17.498-07:00Filling Empty Spots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Just a few spots to go, and all the winter chores are done. All the nymphs, jigs, drys and streamers have been tied, re-sorted and placed in new boxes for the new season. I am pretty pleased with the new arrangement for the coming season as it will make it easy moving back and forth from the drift boat and raft, as well as any walk wading.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Bring on the season.</span></div>
<br />Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-85354703023497019052019-01-21T16:57:00.002-07:002019-01-21T16:57:18.290-07:00Purple Darth Baetis- Greg Garcia<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">I know when Greg posted his original Darth Baetis pattern I had to post it, Greg's patterns are money in the bank. Although , just a variation, the new purple version that will be coming out and added to Umpqua's catalog this year, will be another barn-burner. Greg only does things one way, first class.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Get in and purchase some or add a few rows of these to your box.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Thanks for adding this new video for us Greg... </span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-7226150141566371492019-01-07T12:39:00.004-07:002019-01-07T12:39:57.628-07:00Big Bird PMD - Quick Tie<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">Check out the great video short from Bob Streb of Colorado Angling Company. A master on </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">in the Vail valley <span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">at the Colorado River. Although I have not gotten the opportunity to fish with Bob</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">yet I have many of great stories and met many folks that have been in his boat. I am typically in the boat with owner Joe Morcomber. If your looking for some great guides on the Eagle or Colorado, give them a holler, they will hook you up on some water you typically don't fish. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Sorry for getting side tracked, check out Bob's PMD.</span></span></div>
Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-49039813734393696552018-12-26T13:12:00.001-07:002018-12-26T13:12:32.721-07:00Daydreaming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;"><i>This time of year lends its self to letting your mind wonder and think about the fishing trips and destinations you been to in the past year or years, and the ones that consume your time thinking about going to in the future. The mind drifts off thinking of sand in your toes, wading the flats, staring at the tail of bonefish, to the flailing tail of a Redfish as it digs for another crab, or long cast as you get that caddis in the perfect drift lane for that </i><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><i>feeding cutthroat. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Wow, your mind wonders, all the time, </i><i>were</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> will I go, what will i fish for. </i></span></div>
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Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-61113857774351855092018-12-20T12:07:00.002-07:002018-12-20T12:07:50.131-07:00Characters -Ari T Hart<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">A Reel Master, where modern art meets fly fishing. I feel truly lucky to own several of his creations</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">that I picked up in his heyday. Works of art, no two are designs are the same. This video short</span></div>
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Floatfisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07376025095571721663noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1434392750141824222.post-42310234221877888272018-12-11T08:57:00.002-07:002018-12-11T08:57:16.445-07:00Ramping Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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December brings the start of serious evening and weekend fly tying sessions to start filling the empty holes, new patterns and fill the void of no fishing. Some of this years tasks include reworking the Midge boxes and re-vamping and adding to the ever-growing streamer boxes. </div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Turkey, stuffing and red fish, I cannot think of a better way to spend the</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">red fish and some of the larger bull red fish when the conditions exist. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Of course , the perfect day is bright sun, no wind, but this trip would give us the opposite </span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;">with wind, lots of clouds and fish that were very hard to find. But that is why you hire a fantastic guide time after time, as they know where to search on those tough and challenging times. Seems the larger bulls did not want to show themselves, but working hard payed its dividends with plenty of smaller 6-14# <span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">beauties. I would catch these all day long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">I just love cruising these small canals and ditches of Louisiana, Can't wait till next year.</span></span></div>
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